Carpe Diem: The Living Flame

[InsaneJP]

2morraaa

[Linkforce]

Well, here it is.  The moment that should've happened almost a month ago.  Sorry about the huge delay, but my internet died the day of the release.  Sorry guys.  

But without further adue (or w/e) I present to Charas:

*Drumroll*


Carpe Diem: The Living Flame Demo #2


Now, whilst downloading the demo, please read these points to better understand things.


1. Some battle sprites are not made yet.  So if a sprite turns invisible, just do your best to continue.  I will get them soon enough.
2. Any recource with a CD in front of it is not open to public use.  Unless with my permission first.  I would really appreciate that.
3. To get the full experience of the intro, it is advised that you warm up RM2k3 with another game first, to reduce skipping.  (The intro is timed with the music.)
4. The sprinting system is not perfected.  So be careful when using it.  Especially when climbing ladders.  Um..you also cant exit to the World Map while sprinting.  It's another thing I can't fix yet.
5. If there is anything else, that I forgot, check here and I will add it.
6. Meis, delete your post.  XD

Enjoy the demo guys!!!!!!!!!!

[Meiscool-2]

Delete'd

[aboutasoandthis]

Now at 14%. I don't exactly know how to say this so...take it as a compliment. I thought Episode 1 was kind of bad (it wasn't that bad), so I'm really really excited to see what you improved.

If you are reading this AIM me  now.

[Linkforce]

You mean Chapter 1.  And yea, you played the ooooooooooooold *** version of it.  I assure you, that you wont be dissapointed with this new demo.

Um...my AIM is on the fritz, so PM me instead.

[I Have a Sandwich]

Played it up til I died, which was pretty damn far, into episode 2. Very nice.

[aboutasoandthis]

Cutscenes...painfully...long...

Feel...like...playing...Xenosaga...

Please make more save points and put in some more interactive stuff. I'm on the part where you find the soldiers. I really don't like going through that flying cat cutscene.

Other than that, very nice.

[Nandez]

Well what can I say?In the beginning its cliche but Everygame these days fan or pro is Cliche in the beginning its how it continues that makes a diffrence and i'll stick around and wait to see how it continues. While I was annoyed that I couldn't save on the world map because soon after I need to save the game froze and I had to go through a few very long cutscenes again and travel a little ways.While the mapping is good the color of some of the characters offend my eyes like Trance but I guess thats personnel taste more than anything. Good job though.

[Linkforce]

Aboutaso: The game will be full of long cutscenes.  It's just how I like to tell my story.  As the game progresses and gets out of all the introductions, it will become more interactive.  I first have to introduce a lot of characters as you can see so far.
Oh, and what was wrong with the Remolite scene?  I thought it was rather humerous.

Nandez: How was the begining cliche?  Can you be more specific please?
And about saving on the World Map...I can see where you're coming from that.  I may just allow you to save their.

Any reviews anyone?

[Nandez]

Well I won't go into long details but for example.Your hero start off by telling his story gong somewhere then decided to say I should start at the begining. No big deal then he goes off meet his friend one of them suggests to go his hometown on there way they run into a montser to hard but some strange just happens to pass by and saves there asses. Like I said I won't go deep deep into detail but again like I said no big deal. When I said cliche I may have spoken out of term. I didn't mean like Oh my God! This is so cliche. Just like oh well this happens in games time to time but its going nicely.
I mean even the same things happen in my game. So no real big deal it went smoothly.

The only problem I have is when the cave was shaking my eyes where hurting during that entire part because it was continious and took a few extra seocnds to get through the dirt and exit the cave.

So far my review I give 8 out of 10.

And I give your mapping skills a 9 out of 10 because seriously alot of the maps you put together look really beautiful.I enjoyed them very much.

[Linkforce]

Oh...well in the beggining he is going somewhere.  But where you see him walking is actually scenes from him telling the story from the begining.  Know what I mean?

Also, I've gotten a lot of complaints about the Cave shaking, so I fixed it up a bit.  

Glad you like it so far.  ^^

[I Have a Sandwich]

Yeah, I have to agree with em. Then cutscenes are rather long, but you usually have a chance to save immediately after the big ones so its not problem. I usually just have a REALLLLLy long one at the start, and mini-scenes the rest.

[Dragonium]

REVIEW'D.

Graphics - 8/10

I'm impressed . You've done a good job of making your poses and battle animations as fluid and smooth as possible, and it's damn fine to see them all working together. The style of your maps and charsets match up well, and I love the way the battle background reflects the map. And your World Map chipset is bloody lush. Well done.

Music - 7/10

Mixed bag here. Your battle and boss MIDIs are excellent and I love them. The music really suits the events that are happening as well. There were a few that let the side down though; the MIDIs for the road in the intro and the West Continent Checkpoint
gave me a headache. But that's just personal taste, so it's okay.

Story - 9/10

Not much to say here. It's just good old Carpe Diem, the way it should be. Good job.

(And, in my humble opinion, it's not clichéd at all)

Gameplay - 9/10

Excellent. Everything works fluidly, smoothly, and it's hard to find fault with it. The battle system is great (Exactly how the DBS should be used), and the difficulty setting is just right (Though the boss in the cave is difficult if he keeps using Scale Armour - I ended up doing no damage to him and died several times before I beat him). I enjoyed the whole thing. No problems here.

Systems/Extras - 7/10

Only 7 because there wasn't an awful lot to be shown. But, I did like what was there. I want to know how you made that Dash system (You will know from Radiance's first demo that mine failed horribly ), and the rest of what you had was well made. You obviously have a brilliant understanding of Rm2k3. Good job.

Total - 40/50

Total Percentage - 80%

Linkeh, you've made a lot of progress, and the game is looking great. Now keep up the good work or I shall put sandpaper in your pants.

[Kass]

I wished Nadez would use more periods. I'll play the game when the oppurtunity presents itself.

[Spike21]

i wanna play so bad...

Link i will try and get on my laptop to night so if you need or want anything you know who to ask